A federal investigation found that a Kansas City, Missouri-based mechanical contracting company did not follow procedures that would have prevented the electrocution death of a technician last August.
Nearly five years after an employee died in a trench collapse, a Missouri contractor exposed two workers to the life-threatening risk of being buried by thousands of pounds of soil as they worked in an unprotected trench weakened by water pooling in an excavation site.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed a $796,817 fine for a Missouri contractor due to a hazardous work environment.